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A teacher in a very tough inner-city school once told me it's important to remember that all children want to learn and all children can learn. No matter how difficult it might be to manage a classroom, or to get a child's attention, children really do want to learn.
As we begin a national conversation on NBC about America's broken schools, I hope we all keep that in mind. There will be a natural inclination to point fingers and assign blame but, the truth is, as a nation we all probably share some responsibility for what's happened to our schools and to our children. Their failure is our failure.
For decades we've been warned that our schools were headed in the wrong direction. In 1983,
